WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Justice Department investigation found sweeping patterns of racial bias within the Ferguson, Missouri, police department, with officers routinely discriminating against blacks by using excessive force, issuing petty citations and making baseless traffic stops, according to law enforcement officials familiar with its findings....

BOSTON (AP) -- In the two years since twin bombs tore through crowds at the Boston Marathon finish line, the case against suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has focused on arguments over where his trial should be held, who should sit on the jury and what evidence prosecutors should be allowed to use....

Cyclops: Cyclops Turns 30Here are two numbers: 30 and 1,500. This week begins the 30th year of this column (amounting to some 1,500 individual columns appearing in assorted weekly newspapers). I never could have imagined i...